eitje wrote:I'm driving in from Chicago on the morning of the 11th, and then flying back from Grand Rapids on the 12th. So, I could give people one-way rides...?

Dang! Don't stick around too long or you might wear out your welcome XP

And broFish, I think the largest diameter circles being towards the center would be nice, seeing as we made ourselves a mini lake in the middle last time... Maybe such a design would help prevent that from happening again lol I love the idea of more than one diameter being used

BTW, are there many people interested in watching the Livestream? It really didn't seem to get a lot of attention last year - no doubt do in part to the fact that I have so little bandwidth there to begin with that I could barely send a decent image out. Do you guys value resolution or framerate more if I have to choose? Last year I aimed for 3fps @ 720p but this year my laptop is more powerful so it should manage the compression better and be an improvement over all... I think the audio was at least decent but since the camera was inside due to the weather there wasn't much to hear - hopefully that changes this year as well...

Instead of a live stream, how a video chat station set up, where people can just walk by and chat with someone from TR or even say hi to family?Let some TR members who cant make it call in and say hi? (just tossing it out)

Alright, now this is starting to look good. The welds themselves are about 1/2" wide so add an extra foot or so to the length and we end up past the 25' mark! That's 10' longer than last year with 6 additional sections. I think it looks pretty alright.

Dp,Maybe I can setup LiveSteam to use both cameras like I could if I was sharing my screen and using a camera - sort of a PIP thing... Then there would be the scene of the BBQ and the option for some kind of BBQ confessional...

Sadly the place messed up my order or just didn't have greater than/less than symbols in their engraving font so I ended up with underscores on either side of "/WINNING" on the 1st place model. I've asked them to send me a replacement plaque.

Also there's this thing:

I'm not sure what to do with it yet (that's why I left the caption open ended), but I like it.

LOL, I'm not sure I do either! I liked the name The Wasson Cup and really wanted to use it. The toilet is supposed to be the award for the loser of a tournament but it is the largest, heaviest and most expensive of the ones I bought by far so I'm not planning to strictly adhere to that concept (BTW, by expensive I mean $15 vs $6 - no banks were broken obtaining these things). "the most worthy" aspect of it allows it to be open ended and because its an awesome huge toilet trophy we can freely give it to either the biggest win or the biggest fail of the BBQ. If we have another walker incident, runaway tent or any other random thing I wanted to be prepared - cornhorn related or not. My guess is that it will be obvious who should take it home but if not we can do a show of hands.

Now, if only we could find out if any TR reps are confirmed; like maybe some from the great white north perhaps?

I've got a 1000 mile one-way or so from VT and coming from Vancouver must double that.

Grab Cyril and Geoff if you can; that is who I was talking about. What the hell, grab hoser too......he has been trying to make it for a while. New blood every year is really cool for us old timers.

drfish wrote:

Flying Fox wrote:I don't get the toilet thing...!

LOL, I'm not sure I do either! I liked the name The Wasson Cup and really wanted to use it. The toilet is supposed to be the award for the loser of a tournament but it is the largest, heaviest and most expensive of the ones I bought by far so I'm not planning to strictly adhere to that concept (BTW, by expensive I mean $15 vs $6 - no banks were broken obtaining these things). "the most worthy" aspect of it allows it to be open ended and because its an awesome huge toilet trophy we can freely give it to either the biggest win or the biggest fail of the BBQ. If we have another walker incident, runaway tent or any other random thing I wanted to be prepared - cornhorn related or not. My guess is that it will be obvious who should take it home but if not we can do a show of hands.

I wanna lose just because I really like the look of that trophy and the ambiguous plaque wording

Regarding the tourney not being stressful this year - keep an eye on the front page, heh.

Regarding the toilet trophy, that's as good a reason as any - we'll see what happens. I'm really looking forward to it being awarded. I would still like to work out a list of TR BBQ achievements - "accumulate X number of miles traveled to the BBQ", "attend X number of years", "attend X number of years in a row", "win cornhole tourney", "2nd place in tourney", "spend >1 hour in the sun", etc, etc...